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Join us Tues. May 23, 7 p.m.

in the Hearthstone Board Room, 6720 E. Green Lake Way N

Agenda:

• Introductions

• Current tree cutting and trimming in the Park

• Privatization of Evans Pool and Community Center – Ellen Hewitt
• Michael O’Brien’s outreach to FOGL
• GPS/emergency path marker system – Karen Schurr
• Crosswalk striping near the rowing facility and elsewhere in the Park
• Safety for cross-lake swimmers
• Park projects submitted: Review and Response by Parks’ Dept*
• Future meeting dates (July 25?)
• Candidates sought for President, Vice-President, and Treasurer
• AdjournThanks to the Hearthstone for sharing their meeting room.

*The To Do List was drawn up by the Friends of Green Lake and submitted to Seattle Parks and Recreation Department in July.  It includes 24 items such as Improving Path Safety, Remodeling West Beach Changing Rooms, and Removing Trees in Shoreline Wall.  For the complete list visit http://friendsofgreenlake.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-July-To-Do-List.pdf

Learn about the Green Lake Small Craft Center and about the 2016 alum treatment’s impact on the lake’s water quality.

Join us Tues. April 25, 7 p.m.
in the Hearthstone Board Room, 6720 E. Green Lake Way N

Agenda:

• Introductions

• Green Lake Small Craft Center activities and building plans – Jason Frisk, Manager and Mike Stanley, President

• “Evolving Alum Treatment Strategies with Adapting Cyanobacteria in Green Lake” – Rob Zisette, Herrera Environmental Consultants
• Business
  • FOGL Location Marker system report – Karen Schurr
  • Parks Dept response to GL To Do List* 11/23/16
  • Future meeting dates

• Adjourn

*The To Do List was drawn up by the Friends of Green Lake and submitted to Seattle Parks and Recreation Department in July.  It includes 24 items such as Improving Path Safety, Remodeling West Beach Changing Rooms, and Removing Trees in Shoreline Wall.  For the complete list visit http://friendsofgreenlake.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-July-To-Do-List.pdf

Thanks to the Hearthstone for hosting our meeting.

Come to a special Friends of Green Lake meeting this Tuesday evening, February 21st, to select one or two Green Lake Park projects to submit to the City’s capital budget competition Your Voice, Your Choice: Parks & Streets.

In July FOGL submitted a “To-Do” list to the Parks Department, and the projects will be selected from that list. A copy of FOGL’s “To-Do” list can be found at friendsofgreenlake.org in the center column, third article.

Please note that this meeting is being held a week earlier than usual since the City’s deadline for submission of ideas is February 26th. Everyone is welcome.

Room opens for socializing and conversation at 6:45 PM

• Introductions

• Projects for Green Lake Park

• Old Business and then New Business

• Adjourn

*The To Do List was drawn up by the Friends of Green Lake and submitted to Seattle Parks and Recreation Department in July.  It includes 24 items such as Improving Path Safety, Remodeling West Beach Changing Rooms, and Removing Trees in Shoreline Wall.  For the complete list visit http://friendsofgreenlake.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-July-To-Do-List.pdf

Thanks to the Hearthstone for hosting our meeting.

Friends of Green Lake (FOGL) is a non-profit group in Seattle, Washington, whose mission is to ensure a healthy Green Lake for wildlife and recreation, for today and tomorrow.

Minutes for previous meetings are being posted in the blog, retroactively. Click here for a minutes-only archive.

Secchi Depth: 4.5 m / 14.8 ft
Water Temp: 5.0 C / 41.0 F

After over two weeks of ice cover, the lake is ice-free. 2.3 inches (60 mm) of rain January 17/18 brought the lake up ~2 inches. The lake is returning to its lower winter level.

Green Lake Stewards are on the job in good weather or bad, year round, to remove invasive species of English Ivy and blackberries that proliferate around the lake.  In November 2016, they planted 150 native plants on the west side of the lake.  Here is their story, told by Garet Munger and Andrea Watts.

by Garet Munger and Andrea Watts

Green Lake is the beloved lake in the heart of Seattle’s Green Lake neighborhood that people from all over the city come to visit. On any given day, you can find runners running laps along its outer path, families with strollers, and fisherman fishing from the lake’s edge. Unfortunately, blackberry and English ivy have invaded the shoreline habitat around the lake. Green Lake Stewards is a small but growing group of volunteers who are dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the natural areas around the lake by removing invasive plants where they are coming to dominate the shoreline habitat. Our intention is that our work to control the non-native plants will help to give native plants a chance at the lake.

Green Lake Stewards Hard at Work

We work in partnership with the Seattle Parks and Green Seattle Partnership, and since July 2015, we have hosted monthly work parties to remove the invasive plant species, such as Himalayan and evergreen blackberry and English ivy, from around the lake. Removing these invasive plants provides more growing space for native plants and creates a healthier ecosystem. In November of 2016, we planted 150 native shrubs and trees along the west side of the lake north of the small craft center. If you are interested in learning more about Green Lake Stewards, or being notified of future work parties, visit our web site at greenlakestewards.org. We are looking to grow our volunteer group, and our website, and we would appreciate your help!

Our next work party will February 11.  After February, work parties will be regularly scheduled on the second Saturday of each month.  Check the web site for time and place.

Contact Garet Munger at garetpeter@comcast.net with questions or to volunteer.

Room opens for socializing and conversation at 6:45 PM

• Introductions

• Review of projects* recommended to Parks Department in 2016 for Green Lake Park

• Prioritizing projects for FOGL’s action in 2017

• Conversations on current Green Lake concerns: Parks District budget, Community Center plans and Evans Pool updates, etc.

• Treasurer’s Report and Webmasters Report

• We need a President, Vice-President, and Treasurer

• Adjourn

*The To Do List was drawn up by the Friends of Green Lake and submitted to Seattle Parks and Recreation Department in July.  It includes 24 items such as Improving Path Safety, Remodeling West Beach Changing Rooms, and Removing Trees in Shoreline Wall.  For the complete list visit http://friendsofgreenlake.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2016-July-To-Do-List.pdf

Next FOGL meeting will be April 25th. (We are meeting quarterly, or as needed, in 2017.)

Thanks to the Hearthstone for hosting our meeting.

Friends of Green Lake (FOGL) is a non-profit group in Seattle, Washington, whose mission is to ensure a healthy Green Lake for wildlife and recreation, for today and tomorrow.